From: The Real Doctor on
On 23 Jun, 11:28, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> Why not, don't you have pride in how you appear to the rest of the word?

If he has, I doubt that he'll be wanting to drive around in an
obsessively shiny Rover 75...

Ian
From: Brimstone on
The Real Doctor wrote:
> On 23 Jun, 08:40, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> And "detailing" is an alternative word for what?
>
> "He watched Anna Kournikova videos on youtube for half an hour, then
> detailed himself senseless"
>
> Is that what you were thinking of?
>
Something like that, perhaps.


From: Brimstone on
The Real Doctor wrote:
> On 23 Jun, 11:28, "Brimstone" <brimstone520-n...(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Why not, don't you have pride in how you appear to the rest of the
>> word?
>
> If he has, I doubt that he'll be wanting to drive around in an
> obsessively shiny Rover 75...
>
Regardless of the make and model, why not?


From: Raymond Keattch on
On 23/06/2008 02:24:17, wrote:
> Raymond Keattch <ray.keattch(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> > And travelling 8 hours to polish a car is completely rational?
>>
>> Concentrate now - the car was detailed, and that included a wash and a
>> polish.
>
> So you travelled for eight hours to wash and polish a car.

Your'e nearly there - he travelled to me to detail the car - the primary
purpose was to correct paint defects (scratches to you).

--
MrBitsy
Rover 75 CDTi
From: Raymond Keattch on
On 23/06/2008 07:30:00, The Real Doctor wrote:
> On 22 Jun, 23:30, "Raymond Keattch" <ray.keat...(a)nowhere.com> wrote:
>
>> You can't say what wire you use and why, so I guess I will just have to think
>> hypocrite.
>
> A friend of mine got all excited over some speaker leads he had
> bought, because they were made of "oxygen free high conductivity
> copper". He was just a little crestfallen when I pointed out what
> kettle leads are made of ...

I wouldn't be upset, because if they made the system as a whole sound better
than what I used before, I wouldn't care if they were made out of washing
machine cable.


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MrBitsy
Rover 75 CDTi